{"id":253473,"date":"2013-04-22T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253473"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:27:24","slug":"smith-county-honors-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253473","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Honors Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=253474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-253474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/thumb_smithcounty-seal1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_smithcounty-seal\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-253474\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith and other County employees gathered in the Smith County Commissioners Courtroom Monday to honor volunteers of the Smith County Volunteer Services program. Since the program\u2019s inception in 2009, volunteers have worked over 16,000 hours. That\u2019s saved Smith County taxpayers $351,625.23, based on the Independent Sector\u2019s Value of Volunteer Time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very grateful to all of these individuals who choose to give their time and effort to help various County departments. These are people of all ages and backgrounds who help all of us by volunteering,\u201d said Sheriff Smith. Leading the program with Sheriff Smith were Major Deal Folmar and Alicia Armstrong of the Sheriff\u2019s Office. Anyone wanting to volunteer for Smith County should call Volunteer Coordinator Alicia Armstrong at 903-590-2786. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-county.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.smith-county.com<\/a> for more information on Smith County services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith and other County employees gathered in the Smith County Commissioners Courtroom Monday to honor volunteers of the Smith County Volunteer Services program. Since the program\u2019s inception in 2009, volunteers have worked over 16,000 hours. That\u2019s saved Smith County taxpayers $351,625.23, based on the Independent Sector\u2019s Value of Volunteer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Honors Volunteers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 17:04:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253667,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253473\/revisions\/253667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}